The Empire of Japan competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Background The Japan Amateur Athletic Federation (Nihon Rikujo Kyogi Renmei), founded in 1925, officially took over sponsorship of the Japanese Olympic team from the Japan Amateur Athletic Association in 1928. Japanese government sponsorship of the Olympic effort continued, both financially, and through expansion of the annual Meiji Shrine Games to include a wider variety of sports, including archery, basketball, field hockey, rowing, table tennis, volleyball and equestrian sports.Guttman, Allen. Japanese Sports: A History (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), p. 119-120.
The games became the qualifying event for the Japanese Olympic team, which now for the first time included a woman (Kinue Hitomi). For the 1928 Olympics, Japan fielded 43 athletes.
Medalists
|width=78% align=left valign=top| Medal Name Sport Event Date Athletics Men's triple jump August 2 Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke August 8 Athletics Women's 800 m August 2 Nobuo AraiTokuhei SadaKatsuo Takaishi Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 11 Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle August 11 | width=22% align=left valign=top | Medals by sportSport TotalSwimming 1 1 13Athletics 1 1 02 Total 2 2 1 5
Athletics
Ranks given are within the heat.
AthleteEventHeat QuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankIwao Aizawa Men's 100 m ? 4Did not advance Men's 200 m 22.6 3 Did not advance Yoshio Miki Men's 110 m hurdles 15.4 1 Q ? 6 Did not advance Juichi Nagatani Men's 10000 m ? 19 Did not advance Men's Marathoncolspan=6 3:03.34 48 Seiichiro Tsudacolspan=6 2:36.206 Kanematsu Yamadacolspan=6 2:35.294
Field events AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionIchiro FuruyamaDiscus throw37.8927Did not advanceKazuo KimuraHigh jump1.831 Q1.886Yonetaro NakazawaPole vault3.661 Q3.906Chūhei NambuLong jump7.25 9Did not advanceTriple jump15.01 2 Q15.01 4Mikio OdaLong jump7.1111Did not advanceTriple jump15.211 Q15.21High jump1.831 Q1.887Yoshio OkitaDiscus throw36.38 30Did not advanceHammer throw44.41 15Did not advanceKosaku SumiyoshiJavelin throw59.0513Did not advance
Combined events – Decathlon AthleteEvent 100 m 400 m 1500 mFinalRankYonetaro NakazawaResult12.46.0410.371.751:01.818.431.433.7040.335:54.6479522Points531595508585350464493535447287Tatsuo TokiResult11.66.9011.031.7554.416.834.013.1045.835:10.8579412Points683790548585617620544381527499
Women Track & road events AthleteEventHeat QuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankKinue Hitomi800 m 2:26:04 Qcolspan=4 2:17:06
Boxing
Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal FinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankFuji OkamotoBantamweightcolspan="1" align="center" LDid not advanceKintaro UsudaWelterweight W W LDid not advance Diving
SwimmerEventHeatsSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRank Fumio Takashina Men's 3 m springboard 139.82 8 QF x x 139.78 9
Equestrian
Dressage EquestrianHorseEventFinal Score Rank Takushu Dressage193.7020 Sakigake166.96 28 Eventing AthleteHorseEventDressageCross-countryJumpingTotalFinalPenaltiesRankPenaltiesTotalRankPenaltiesTotalRankPenaltiesRankShunzo KidoKyngunIndividual200.66 171432.0 61632.66 8180.0261812.6621 Show jumping AthleteHorseEventQualificationFinalTimePenaltiesRankPenaltiesRankPenaltiesRankShigetomo YoshidaKyuzan IndividualDSQ Did not advance
Rowing
Men AthleteEventRound 1RepechageRound 2RepechageRound 3SemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankKinichiro IshiiSingle ScullsDNF15Did not advanceKazuo NoseMakoto TsushidaIsamu TakashimaHachiro SatoTsukasa SonobeCoxed four7:49.0 2 R7:51.4 2Did not advance
Swimming
AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank Nobuo Arai Men's 400 m freestyle 5:23.4 10 QQ DNS Did not advance Men's 1500 m freestyle 21:35:4 9 QQ DNS Did not advance Toshio Irie Men's 100 m backstroke 1:13.4 3 QQ 1:14.0 3 QF 1:13.6 4 Shourai Kimura Men's 100 m backstroke DNS Did not advance Yuki Mawatari Men's 200 m breaststroke DNS Did not advance Katsuo Takaishi Men's 100 m freestyle 1:01.2 4 QQ 1:00.0 1 QF 1:00.0 Men's 400 m freestyle 5:22.8 9 QF DNS Did not advance Takaji Takebayashi Men's 1500 m freestyle 22:30.4 9 QQ DNF — Did not advance Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Men's 200 m breaststroke 2:50.0 1 OR 2:49.2 1 OR 2:48.8 OR Hiroshi Yoneyama 400 metre freestyle5:17.83 QQDNSDid not advance Nobuo AraiTokuhei SadaKatsuo TakaishiHiroshi Yoneyama 4×200 metre freestyle relay9:42.62 QFcolspan=2 9:41.4
Wrestling
Men's Freestyle AthleteEventElimination PoolFinal roundRound 1ResultRound 2ResultRound 3ResultRound 4ResultRound 5ResultRound 6ResultRankFinal roundResultRankIsuke Shinmen−65 kgcolspan=1 L F colspan=4 8Did not advance
References Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database